BMW 650 Funduro

In the face of what happened... pray tell *how*?

 

It is possible that was what she wanted, but the partner clearly stated
"off road".

Maybe my 4x4/Enduro background is showing here...


G-S

 

Ah, well, her original plan was to not bother insuring it,
and to take it straight out of the showroom and on the
Paris-Dakar ... naked.

-----sharks (already got a BMW tattoo on her arse, which
might have been an overreaction ...)

 

<Shrug> I thought I was simply making the point that short arses and
big trailies aren't necessarily mutually exclusive

cheers,

Bill_h

 

I heard your dick can fall off if you admit a mistake on usenet so I've
been vigorously checking mine each morning in the shower and I'm happy to
report that it's still firmly anchored.

 

Disturbingly, I think I had a visual. That bloody santa pic has a lot
to answer for

Bill_h

 

Coming back from Phillip Island, we encountered a "Gravel Road" sign.
It actually was a bit of road works, with about 50 metres where the
edges of the bitumen had been ripped up and a road-base laid down.
Personally, I thought it didn't even qualify for "Unsealed Surface".
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Cheers

PeterC [aka MildThing]
'81 Suzuki GS450-s (gone on to better and brighter things - I hope)
'87 BMW K100RT (write-off)
'81 Yamaha Virago (XV) 750H (work in progress)
'01 Yamaha FJR1300

www.dmcsc.org.au
http://eladesom.com.au/ulysses/
# 37181

 

For lots of riding people do this is true, and I've never denied that.

But for offroad (defined as not on a made surface, gravel or tar since
that bit doesn't seem to be registering at slower speeds short arses
and big and heavy trailies don't work. ie to say... they are mutually
exclusive.

cheers
G-S

 

At least your visual had 'fallen off bits' for lesser mental damage!


G-S

 

But it would've come in handy had there been any cameras present to
record her stack.

 

Not to mention reductio ad absurdum... if this discussion had been about
basketball (google-google-google), someone would've pulled Tyrone
Bogues[1] out of their arse.

Dakar racers are freaks.

If anything, I'd say "off-road=trail", places where someone might've
zigzagged a bulldozer through a couple of decades ago, but, for the
purposes of describing terrain where a novice could get in trouble on a
big, unwieldy bike, I'd happily expand the definition to "roads you'd
think twice about taking a regular passenger car along".



[1] He was an NBA pro at 160cm tall in the late 80's/early 90's.

 

Mosfet wrote:
: Yeah she got it, and rode it home in the snow.
: She can ride it ok. Loves it. Her Dad gave it to her for her
: 23rd birthday tomorrow. He said it's the money he's been
: saving for our wedding next year. I think he's joking though.

what colour was it ?

not photoshop pink ??


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bear on a CX500 Sports -------> ----------->Vroom!!

 

Mosfet wrote:
:
:: In aus.motorcycles on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:38:58 +1200
:::
:::
:::
::: Yeah she got it, and rode it home in the snow.
::: She can ride it ok. Loves it. Her Dad gave it to her for her
::: 23rd birthday tomorrow. He said it's the money he's been
::: saving for our wedding next year. I think he's joking though.
:::
::
:: Yay!
::
:: Now you see if you can persuade him to give her an offroad training
:: course for Christmas
::
:: Zebee
:
:
: Now she's stuffed it.
: Came downhill towards her house, lost control in the snow and went
: right through a picket fence and hit the side of their concrete block
: garage. Broken left leg, and very shaken. The bike's a bloody mess.

that's what happens when you ride a photshop pink bike ...


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bear on a CX500 Sports -------> ----------->Vroom!!

 

I'm not convinced. It becomes qualitative to argue how big/tall/strong
you have to be to manouvre a big trailie in the tight/ offroad/ dirt
stuff... And a comparison might be with trial, where being able to
get a foot down defeats the purpose, and skill, balance and control is
everything.

Bill_h

 

It mostly confirmed what I thought already.

 

She probably would do that.



Thank goodness the salesman advised her Dad to insure it b4 she took
it away.

 

I think a neighbour has some photos of her on the stretcher and of the
bike. I'll find out.

 

Suzie's fibia and tibia are both broken, the femur was cracked and
her knee joint is dislocated and has damaged cartilage (spelling) so
I'll be doing something similar for quite a while Knobdoodle.

 

No it's white and some black bits. A really good looking bike, it was.

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:46:31 +1200

Yikes! She must have hit that wall at a fair old speed, or else at
*just* the wrong angle...

Zebee